STORY: The Rabbi Akiba...

Subject: The Rabbi Akiba...
From: guest(intruder-inactive)
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 08:19 PM

... tells the story of a man who was in the marketplace of damascus
as he is passing through the stalls he comes face to face with death
death is startled and the man is stricken with terror for the look in death's eyes tells him that it is nearly his time
so the man hires the fastest horse he can find and makes a mad dash to aleppo and arrives there the next day, a nearly impossible feat

feeling safe at last, the man settles in to enjoy a well-earned meal
as he sits, death joins him and informs him that his time has come
the man is aghast and asks why death was startled the day before in damascus
death informs the man that the source of his bewilderment was the knowledge that the meeting was to take place a day later... in aleppo.

Subject: RE: BS: The Rabbi Akiba...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 11:54 PM

Hahahahhh!

It's a music thread-- DEATH..... Don't Show No MERCY..... (in this TOWWWWWWNNNN......)

It's blues!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Rabbi Akiba...
From: The Crazy Bird
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:31 AM

This story has been attributed to a number of people -- I've often seen it touted as a Sufi story.

Here's one about R. Akiba:

Moses was taken forward in time (don't ask me how, angelic license, I guess)to a classroom where Akiba was teaching.

Moses, sitting in the back was amazed at the teaching of Akiba... One of the students asks: How do you know all this?

Akiba replies: we have it from Moses, who recieved it on Sinai!

Moses was again amazed, because he never had realized all the things that were in the Torah. So, he asks: What will be this man's reward?

And Moses is shown how the roman soldiers killed Akiba, how the flesh was raked from his face with a red-hot iron comb...

How can this be? cries Moses.

It will be as I have said, answers the Voice

rgrds CrzyBrd